pressure center
Americannoun
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“But it will matter where that high pressure center sets up, how strong, and if it persists.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2020
The atmospheric pattern that sent the Jet Stream south is colloquially known as a “blocking high”—a big pressure center stuck over the very northern Atlantic Ocean and southern Arctic Ocean.
From Time • Jul. 9, 2013
The dry spells suffered by the U.S. plains states are blamed on blocking by a high pressure center over the upper Midwest.
From Time Magazine Archive
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